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"An action thriller with a message...." On a South Sea island, psychology professor Burnhouse has established an experimental Utopian society based on "anti-humanistic" science and technology. Because his "behavioristic model" denies that human beings possess freedom of will, Burnhouse attempts to control people entirely by rewards. The result is an unanticipated downthrust among the population into extortion, robbery, rape, murder, and rebellion. Another psychologist is sent to investigate, but his team is overwhelmed and faces certain annihilation. The team, and the island, is only "saved" when two residents, reflecting selfless love, sacrifice themselves for the sake of all. As a mirror held up to the inscrutable values of our "human nature," Freedom to Survive proposes whether human beings could ever create a peaceful and loving society-or not. Its striking conclusion is that the fittest citizen for the ultimate survival of our world is the one with the greatest capacity to love others-and respect others' freedoms. Freedom to Survive displays the bare human condition before the sociologist, the psychologist, philosopher, and theologian, and challenges us to consider whether a utopian society, based on universal love, could ever survive. Further, it demonstrates that a culture controlled by physical power only temporarily protects its own gene pool-because ultimately, human beings will fight fearlessly for the right to choose . . . and to love.